Comedy

Further proving that Sacramento is the hottest city in the nation for comedians, it was just announced last week that Mike E. Winfield, a stand-up comic with very strong local ties and a regular at local clubs for years, won the 15th annual StandUp NBC Comedy Competition, beating out 1,600…

I’ve been friends with Keith Lowell Jensen for nearly 18 years, which makes doing the background research for this article super fucking easy. Keith has been performing and perfecting his stand-up comedy during that time frame, and has released seven albums along the way. His latest, Not for Rehire, which…

Full disclosure: I get nervous before doing every interview. Whether it’s a pop star with a household name or a local business person, I get butterflies in my stomach. What’s strange is, the butterflies instantly disappear when my subject says, “Hello.” They earn extra soothing points if they use my…

Join San Francisco-based comedians and co-founders of Brain Space Comics, Jeremy Talamantes and Jordan Cerminara, as they roast five of their best thrifted/flea market/garage sale/street finds at the Sacramento Comedy Spot. Talamantes is a self-published comic book artist and showcased comedian at Big Pine Comedy Festival and SF Sketchfest. Cerminara…

As a comedy fan and as a comedian, I’m ashamed to admit that Nikki Glaser wasn’t really on my radar until I saw her as the stand-out performer on the Comedy Central roasts for Bruce Willis and Rob Lowe. Her 2016 hour-long special for Comedy Central, Perfect, is super clever…

Everyone who knows Dejan Tyler knows two things about him: the dude loves comedy, and the dude loves food. The self-proclaimed “Underground Soup King,” Tyler is the host of the YouTube show Deez Eats, curator of the world’s most delicious Instagram and connoisseur of every restaurant within a 100-mile radius…

I’ve known comedian JR De Guzman for about seven years now, so it was both weird and fun to interview him for this article. I’ve seen him evolve from a quiet kid who’d pop into an open mic, to the seasoned pro rocking a full house at Sacramento Memorial Auditorium…

Twenty years into her career, Jen Kirkman is at the top of her craft. Having started comedy in her hometown Boston, she spent the next four years on the grind in New York before the inevitable move to Los Angeles, where she has lived since 2002. It’s not an atypical…

When we here at Submerge say that we like covering things happening in Sacramento that we’re passionate about (i.e. music, art, comedy, etc.), we aren’t lying. You may not know this, but many of our contributors are musicians, artists, performers and creatives themselves, and as co-owner of the publication, I…

Bill Burr will tell you, he is a comic first and foremost, though you might know him in any number of ways. Throughout more than a quarter-century in comedy, he’s been the white guy on Chappelle’s Show sketches, a frequent Opie and Anthony guest, the creator and voice of Frank…